tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683546417186768820.post6407983871441112592..comments2021-02-13T04:51:17.282-05:00Comments on Nth Wave Feminism: By Request, Part 1: We Really Need to Boycott Abercrombie and FitchKyriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488063301300315710noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683546417186768820.post-88215018303090190772011-03-31T15:52:35.895-04:002011-03-31T15:52:35.895-04:00Absolutely right on. I've read "The Chose...Absolutely right on. I've read "The Chosen" - devoured it, really, earlier this year. It's one of the best-written books I've come across from academia in awhile, and it's genius. Thank you for your recommendations and your comments!Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03275971301824881125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683546417186768820.post-49411661973086945482011-03-31T14:26:24.097-04:002011-03-31T14:26:24.097-04:00"[R]ooted in east coast traditions and Ivy Le..."[R]ooted in east coast traditions and Ivy League heritage" is not just rich and white. It means rich, able-bodied, hetero (male) WASPs. <br /><br />Gladwell has an interesting essay on the SAT and the Ivies: http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_12_17_a_kaplan.htm<br /><br />For a more complete look at the fortress-like nature of the Ivies in protecting privilege, see Karabel's "The Chosen" (http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-History-Admission-Exclusion-Princeton/dp/061877355X). There's a nice summary from the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/5213394<br /><br />'When Mr Karabel picks up the story shortly after 1900, the colleges were becoming increasingly concerned about the number of Jews who were passing the entrance exams. Since the Protestant upper classes who paid tuition bills had deserted other universities, notably Columbia, where “Hebrew” enrollments were deemed excessive, administrators regarded the increased Jewish presence as both a cultural insult and a threat to their institutional viability.<br /><br />'As a result, the colleges limited the size of their classes and began to reject students by creating a definition of merit that was expressly designed to justify quotas on Jewish applicants. Academic achievement would play second fiddle to the character and manliness thought to be inculcated by prestigious boarding schools. Jews (limited to 15% of the class at Harvard and 10% at Yale) were deemed lacking in these attributes. In the words of a former Harvard dean of admissions, Wilbur Bender, Jews were “effeminates, the precious and affected, the unstable”, while private school boys were “virile, masculine, red-blooded he-men”.'<br /><br />It's a real microcosm for how the kyriarchy morphs to protect those in power.Andrew Eppighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10284138977754287236noreply@blogger.com